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� London Critics Circle Film Section member.
� Currently working for Vue Cinemas, Shortlist, Critics Associated, Onemetal, ILoveMediaCity, cubed3, Letterboxd, Universal Film Magazine, UK Film Review, jonesyinc, The Void, Celebritext and the Film Review annual.
� Previously IPC Media Film Critic, reviewing for TV Times, What's On TV, TV & Satellite Week and TV Easy.
� Other work for The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail.
� Weekly film reviewing/news/chat on local radio, including LBC, GLR, Radio Manchester and Three Counties Radio.
� Reviewer of films on TV, including GMTV and Live TV! discussing new movies and gossip.
� Author of The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Movies, The Film and Video Guide and a biography of Barbra Streisand.
� Programmer of seasons at the BFI National Film Theatre, including Winnert's Winners and a tribute to Matt Dillon.
� Interviewer of many cinema greats, including Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Rutger Hauer, Glenn Close, Joan Sims, Alan Alda, Jeff Bridges, Mel Brooks, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Timothy Dalton, James Cameron, Paul Schrader, Lindsay Anderson, David Puttman and William Goldman.
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Flop film now has a cult following
'The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they're dead.' The idiotic 1986 sci-fi horror comedy film Night of the Creeps stars Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow and Tom Atkins. It flopped but now has a cult following.
The main characters' last names are based on famous horror and sci-fi directors: George A Romero (Chris Romero), John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper (James Carpenter Hooper), David Cronenberg (Cynthia Cronenberg), James Cameron (Detective Ray Cameron), John Landis (Detective Landis), Sam Raimi (Sgt Raimi) and Steve Miner (Mr Miner The Janitor). But, like the film, so what?
The Patrol (2013)
Tom Petch's gripping and intelligent 2013 British war action drama film The Patrol is set in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2006, and looks at the Afghan conflict through t
Tom Petch's gripping and intelligent 2013 British war action drama film The Patrol is set in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2006, and looks at the Afghan conflict through the eyes of dazed and scared British soldiers.
It is highly recommended, though right now it has an unfairly low vote on the IMDb.
It won the jury prize for Film of the Festival - Feature at the Raindance Film Festival 2013.
The cast are Owain Arthur as Taff, Nicholas Beveney as Sergeant 'Sol' Campbell, Daniel Fraser as Lieutenant Jonathan Bradshaw, Alex McNally as Ginge, Oliver Mott as Stab, Ben Righton as Captain William Richardson, and Nav Sidhu as Smudge.
The Goob (2014)
Guy Myhill's coming of age film is edgy and impressive
Director Guy Myhill's coming of age film is edgy and impressive, with an eye-catching turn by Liam Walpole matching Simon Tindall's eye- catching photography of a depressing, down-at-heel part of Norfolk. Myhill's feature debut stars Walpole as 16 year-old Goob Taylor, who returns home to his mother (Sienna Guillory) for the summer in rural Norfolk where he grew up. The material in many ways is pretty familiar, but Myhill brings it up entirely fresh, as though this is the first time this kind of story has ever been told, making it feel unique. It's just 80 minutes, but it's got all the story you need packed in there. http://derekwinnert.com/the-goob-2014-movie-review/
Search Party (2014)
Raucous Hangover/Road Trip-style comedy
Search Party is welcome as a raucous Hangover/Road Trip-style comedy. But it is not a very good one, though, to be fair, it's not terrible either. The three main actors try very hard to raise laughs, and are reasonably winsome, and there are quite a few laughs dotted throughout the movie and some really funny moments. T.J. Miller and Adam Pally star as early-30somethings Jason and Evan who set off for Mexico to reunite their buddy Nardo (Thomas Middleditch) with Tracy (Shannon Woodward), the woman he was going to marry until Jason disrupted the wedding. Nardo is naked and in a tight situation until he finds a pair of tights, and then he's in a tights situation. At least till he's back naked again. http://derekwinnert.com/search-party-2105-movie-review/
Into the Storm (2014)
Why does Twister look better?
Into the Storm takes a stale idea, adds boring characters, a tiny plot and cheesy dialogue, casts a bunch of lost-looking B-movie actors, and splats CGI across the huge cinema screen. But, even after nearly 20 years, Twister looks so much better and is a lot more fun. take a bow, Industrial Light & Magic! The young actors come off best, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress and Jeremy Sumpter, at least giving this dinosaur some teen appeal. The film's serious tone gives it the heavy weight of importance, but it's a popcorn movie that needs to have entertainment on its fore-brain. http://derekwinnert.com/twister-1996-helen-hunt-and- bill-paxton-classic-film-review-996/
Here and Now (2014)
Quite mesmerising attractive with a good heart
Lauren Johns stars as mouthy and obnoxious but attractive young London inner-city girl Grace, who is stuck spending a week in the Wye Valley countryside with her arguing parents (Susan Lynch, William Nadylam), who are trying to save their faltering marriage. Grace sulks moodily around but then she meets quiet, good-mannered, handsome country boy Say (Andy Rush), who, oddly enough, finds Grace both obnoxious and attractive. Against all odds, and virtually wordlessly, he starts to court her. As Say takes Grace around the scenic grandeur of the Herefordshire countryside during the dying days of the summer, the couple search for distraction from their unhappy lives. Against all odds, they find each other. Lisle Turner writes and directs in his first feature. There are very considerable signs of imagination, talent and promise here. It's hardly a film at all, more of a fragile poetic fragment. But it's really quite mesmerising attractive with its good heart, earnest performances and lush shots of the startlingly bleakly beautiful countryside.